The Life of Poggio Bracciolini

V. elected to the pontificate?Termination of the Schism?Dissolution of the Council?Poggio attends the pontiff' to Mantua?He visits England, at the instance of Beaufort, bishop of Winchester? He is disappointed?State of literature in Britain? Several of Cicero s works recovered in Italy?Quarrel between Leonardo Aretino and Niccolo Niccoli? Poggio obtains a small benefice?He is still dissatisfied ?He returns to Italy?Notices of the state of society in Britain which occur in his works. CHAP. III. after the execution of Jerome of Prague, Poggio received from Guarino Veronese, a copy of a treatise, De Re Uxoria, i. e. on the duties of a wife, which had Guarino Veronese, as his surname imports, was a native of Verona, in whieh eity he was born A. D..1370. Dedieating himself to study from his early years, ho became a pupil of John of Ravenna. Not eontented with acquiring, under the instructions of this able tutor, a knowledge of the Latin language, he undertook a voyage to Constantinople for the express purpose of reading the Greek elassies in the school of Manuel Crysoloras. Pontieio Virunio, who flourished in the beginning of the 16th eentury, affirms, that when Guarino had finished his Greek studies, he returned to Italy with two large chests full of books, whieh he had collected during his residence in Constantinople ; and that he ms so mueh affected by the loss of one of these valuable packages, whieh perished in a shipwreek, that his hair became grey in the ...